Roderick Townley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

  • The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

  • I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

  • Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

  • How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

  • When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

  • At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  • Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

  • A book brings its own history to the reader.

  • An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.